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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY concerts;

' :1 full and exact description thereof.

GAMALEEL KINGpOF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, gissieNon To. HIMSELF AND CHARLES C. PRATT, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 65,917, dated June 18, 1867.-

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Be it known that I, GAMALIE L KING, of Westfield, Hampden county, Commonwealth if-Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful ImprovedMethod of Covering Whips; and I do-llereby declare that the following is This invention consists in covering the stock of the whip beneath the outer covering with a preparation which renders it water-.proofnnd more flexible and solid.

The preparation used for this purpose by me is composed in the following mannerond of the ingredients o which I will now explain: I dissolve caoutehouc in proportion of about two pounds to one gallon of benzine, spirits of turpentine, or naphtha, fluids having equivalent and similar properties. I When the rubber is dissolved in, this, I add about two-thirds of a. pound'of' red orwhite lead, which is thoroughly fnixecl with the solution of rubber, end in some cases add a small proportion of linseed oil. When this preparation is so prepared, Icoat the stock of the whip its entire length with it, applying it with 'ubrush orby dipping the stock inlong tubes containing the solution. While the substance forming the coating is still slightly glutinous I braid the foundation thus formed over with the firstbraiding, after which another coating of the shine preparation is applied in a similar manner as the first, when the whip is again braided over with an outside braiding, completing the process. It is not necessary that both braidings and viscous coatings should be put on in this manner as in some cuses, where a less expensive whip is manufactured, I braid the stock over with a first brhidingand'theuapply the chemical coating forming the fine-l braiding over this, leaving only one coating of the preparation between the trio bruidings. Again, I sometimes apply the coat of'wuter-proof to the stock foundation, braiding over it an outside covering, thus forming a still cheaper class of whip. The lead used in this combination is for the purpose of giving consistency and hardness to'the same, although it is not absolutely essential to thesuecess of my improvement.

In this manner I obtain a much more flexible and tough whip than can be obtuined otherwise, the substance used thoroughly filling up the interstices of the braiding and forming a solid stoclg while at the some time it is reudered impervious to water and dampness. v

And now, having deseribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- 1. A wutenproof coating, consisting of the combined ingredients herein shown and described.

2. The application of the dissolved cuo'utchouc, with or without the lead and oil, to awhip, substantially as and for the purpose shown. I GAMALIEL KING.

Witnesses:

EDWARD HYDE. R. F. HYDE. 

